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A friend of mine from a previous job career counts as one of his family friends one Erykah Badu.&#160 (For the Uninitiated&#153 Erykah Badu is a semi-well-known rhythm-and-blues/soul/rap singer/crooner/hip-hop diva.

And she’s just shamed the hell outta my friend – not to mention her family – by doing this.

A City of Dallas spokesman said Erykah Badu broke the law by filming a music video in downtown Dallas in which she strips and feigns being shot in Dealey Plaza.

City officials had no immediate comment on the content of the video – either the nudity or the clear references to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.

But whatever she chose to put in her new video, Badu – a Dallas native and renowned graduate of the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts – should have gotten a permit before filming it, said City of Dallas spokesman Frank Librio.

“All commercial film/video or photo shoot projects must be permitted through the City of Dallas Office of Special Events/Film Coordinators,” Librio said in a written statement. “The production company that produced this video never contacted the city to seek the proper permits. This is known as ‘guerrilla filming’ where production companies circumvent the proper permitting procedures and usually shoot these scenes in one take, knowing that if they are discovered they would face arrest and/or penalties.”

Now, should you have the stomach to go seek out the video and view it (I have – and quite honestly, it isn’t that good), you might notice that she did this in full view of regular Dallas citizens.&#160 Men, women…and children.

That’s right, sportz fanz.&#160 Erykah Badu did herself a little striptease for all the nice folks in downtown Dallas.&#160 Without so much as a cover charge, or even the strip club tax the Texas Supreme Court’s looking at right now.

Sad, huh?

And y’know…the really&#160 sad thing is that she’ll probably win some sort of award for the video.&#160 If nothing else, she’ll win one for sticking it to whitey, aka Dallas city government.&#160 Little black girls – and little white ones, and Asian ones, and Hispanic ones too – will, sadly, look up to her as some sort of role model, instead of the two-bit stripper she’s turned out to be.

It’s just another sign that our society and culture has been flushed down the shitter.&#160 And at some point, He who has not turned one blind eye to us, will have had enough, and we will reap the whirlwind.

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